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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. So it's-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: It runs for something like 20 pages. This is the evidence book, Vol. 2, pages 97 to 117. You are telling me that 20 pages of measures did not require any legislative change from the time of Mr. Neary and Mr. Hurley to your period?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: One final thing and I am just going to remain with the Honohan report if you don't mind, Governor. We've had a lot of testimony and evidence here before us with regard to the extent and the preparation of legislation that would have been enabled the nationalisation of Anglo. Evidence we have heard both this week, last week and the week before would strongly indicate that the legislation was...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Excuse me for a second, I forgot to ask you this. The evidence that we have here at the committee at the moment, it would present the scene that the legislation was more or less there and it was legislation used in ... In your report, were you aware that the legislation was that evolved?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'll just bring it back on your own thoughts.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: So to ask you what is your view then on what should have happened to Anglo, given what has come out in recent weeks and what was in your report? Should it have been nationalised or should it have been wound down in two or three days or what should have happened to it?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Completely?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you very much. Senator Marc MacSharry.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: A short supplementary, Deputy ... or Senator, you're out of time-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: We're running out of time now, Senator. We're coming back in ... I just want to wrap up this. Just coming back to the question that Senator MacSharry asked you, there's another aspect to that as well in regard to your experience of the interaction with the international authorities during 2009 and 2010. One of the purposes of that question was to see was that all the international...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: And I suppose did we or did we not have international credibility concerns with regard to how the perception of the State was being viewed from other authorities and other nations, with regard to how credible we would be able to deal with the difficulties that we were going to encounter, both as a nation and as a Government?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, thank you very much, Governor Honohan. It's now just coming up to 11.15 a.m. I'm proposing that we break until 11.30 a.m. and with that said, if I can remind the witness that once he begins giving evidence he should not confer with any person other than his legal team in relation to their evidence or matters that are being discussed before the committee. With that in mind, I now...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: As we're back in quorum, I now propose that we go back into public session. Is that agreed? And our next questioner is Senator Sean Barrett. Senator you've five ... or ten minutes.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Time, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Thank you, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Susan O'Keeffe.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Final supplementary, Senator.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: I'm going to move on now, that's a different one for this afternoon.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, I know that. The next questioner is Senator Michael D'Arcy. Senator D'Arcy.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Ciarán Lynch: You're going into the bailout now, Senator, and I'm going to stop you because two years two months later after the banking guarantee ... or after the bailout, is the banking guarantee. That's going to be dealt with this afternoon.